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1 Kings 16 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

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Prophecy against Baasha

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Now the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:2 - “Since I exalted you from the dust and made you leader over My people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have misled My people Israel into sin, provoking Me to anger with their sins,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:3 - behold, I am going to [fn]burn Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:4 - “Anyone belonging to Baasha who dies in the city, the dogs will eat; and anyone belonging to him who dies in the field, the birds of the sky will eat.”

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Now as for the rest of the acts of Baasha and what he did and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

The Israelite Kings

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:6 - And Baasha [fn]lay down with his fathers and was buried in Tirzah, and his son Elah became king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:7 - Moreover, the word of the LORD through the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came against Baasha and his household, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger with the work of his hands, by being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he struck [fn]it.

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In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha became king over Israel at Tirzah, and reigned for two years.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:9 - And his servant Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now [fn]Elah was in Tirzah drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was in charge of the household in Tirzah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:10 - Then Zimri came in and struck him and put him to death in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and he became king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:11 - And when he became king, as soon as he sat on his throne, he [fn]killed all the household of Baasha; he did not leave [fn]a single male alive, either of his [fn]relatives or of his friends.

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So Zimri eliminated all the household of Baasha, in accordance with the word of the LORD which He spoke against Baasha through Jehu the prophet,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:13 - for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of his son Elah, which they [fn]committed and into which they misled Israel, provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their [fn]idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:14 - Now as for the rest of the acts of Elah and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

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In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned for seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were camped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:16 - And the people who were camped heard [fn]it being said, “Zimri has conspired and has also struck and killed the king!” Therefore all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:17 - Then Omri and all Israel with him went up from Gibbethon and besieged Tirzah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:18 - When Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the citadel of the king’s house and burned the king’s house over himself with fire, and died,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:19 - because of his sins which he [fn]committed, doing evil in the sight of the LORD, walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he committed, misleading Israel into sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:20 - Now as for the rest of the acts of Zimri and his conspiracy which he [fn]carried out, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

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Then the people of Israel were divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; the other half followed Omri.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:22 - But the people who followed Omri prevailed over the people who followed Tibni the son of Ginath. And Tibni died and Omri became king.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:23 - In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri became king over Israel and reigned for twelve years; he reigned for six years at Tirzah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:24 - And he purchased the hill [fn]Samaria from Shemer for [fn]two talents of silver; and he built on the hill, and named the city which he built [fn]Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.

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Now Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD, and acted more wickedly than all who were before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:26 - For he walked [fn]entirely in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat and in his sins into which he misled Israel, provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their [fn]idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:27 - Now as for the rest of the acts of Omri which he did and his might which he [fn]displayed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:28 - And Omri [fn]lay down with his fathers and was buried in Samaria; and his son Ahab became king in his place.

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Now Ahab the son of Omri became king over Israel in the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria for twenty-two years.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:30 - Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD more than all who were before him.

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And as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:32 - So he erected an altar for Baal at the house of Baal, which he built in Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:33 - Ahab also made the [fn]Asherah. So Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:34 - In his days Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho; he laid its foundations with the loss of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates with the loss of his youngest son Segub, in accordance with the word of the LORD, which He spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.
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NASB20 Footnotes
Another reading is sweep away
I.e., died
Or him
Lit he
Lit struck
Lit him who urinates against the wall
Lit blood avengers
Lit sinned
Lit non-existing things
Lit saying
Lit sinned
Lit conspired
Heb Shomeron
About 150 lb. or 68 kg
Heb Shomeron
Lit in all the way of
Lit non-existing things
Lit did
I.e., died
I.e., wooden symbol of a female deity
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1 Kings Chapter 16 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras